{"id":3648,"date":"2008-08-07T09:43:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T14:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2008-08-07T09:43:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T14:43:37","slug":"dave-zirin-why-he-fears-the-fist-a-response-to-jonah-goldberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3648","title":{"rendered":"Dave Zirin: Why He Fears the Fist: A Response to Jonah Goldberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Dave Zirin, Edge of Sports, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgeofsports.com\/2008-08-01-365\/index.html\">1 August 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jonah Goldberg\u2019s regular column in the <em>LA Times<\/em> is usually an awkward grab bag of right wing talking points backed by knowledge of history that would shame a poodle, although a poodle would never be so pompous.  Goldberg stepped on to my beat this past week with a column about the 1968 Olympic protestors, Tommie Smith and John Carlos. His piece was such a cheap, dishonest scribble, I feel compelled to respond.  The column&#8217;s starting point was the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, given to Smith and Carlos at the recent 2008 ESPY Awards. Lest you had any doubt about Goldberg&#8217;s take, the headline blares, &#8220;&#8217;68 Olympics salute deserves no honor: ESPN ignored the violent extremism behind the black power salute given by two medalists at the Mexico City Games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One could tell right away that Goldberg didn\u2019t read a book, an article, even a fortune cookie, about the 1968 Olympics before whipping out his laptop. I know, research is hard \u2026 and who needs facts when you have dogma? &#8212; but Smith and Carlos never advocated any kind of violence. Furthermore, they saw their symbol as a sign of resistance that would connect broadly across ethnicities, not a narrow expression of &#8220;black power\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But the title turns out to be the intellectual summit of the piece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgeofsports.com\/2008-08-01-365\/index.html\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dave Zirin, Edge of Sports, 1 August 2008 Jonah Goldberg\u2019s regular column in the LA Times is usually an awkward grab bag of right wing talking points backed by knowledge of history that would shame a poodle, although a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3648\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-WQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3649,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions\/3649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}